PVC Pipe Summertime

[InspectorJon]

I vote we go back to using wood or fired clay buckets.

 

[Closet Fermenter]

There are extractives in wood that helps the tree resist decay and insects. Consider cedar; nasty stuff in there. However, there are some woods that wood be fairly safe, but problematic for cooking in.

 

[Closet Fermenter]

Always a concern. I have tried to move away from as much plastic as possible, and go with stainless and glass. Only in the past week, I have learned that there is risk with chromium and nickel leaching from stainless steel when cooking acidic foods for a long time.
So, choose your poison, and Rock on!

…and I have always simmered my spaghetti sauce all day in stainless steel pots so as to avoid removing the seasoning from my cast iron pots.

 

[Slim M]

You could get yourself an instant read IR thermometer.

I brewed today and yes I used the pvc pipe for water. It took some reading with my laser thermometer and around 4 pm it was 98f and Sunny I got 125 on the roof and the pipe was 110-120 after setting long periods without water flow. With flow it basically read the ground water temp of 78f.